XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:28:07 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 May 2013 06:30:59 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>> >>In a fair country, the government would hire everyone who needs a   
   >>>> >>job but isn't getting one in the private sector.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >So we should be like North Korea, land of the three-man shovel.   
   >> You whine if they aren't working, you whine if they are.   
   >   
   > Me?  Whine?  When?   
   >   
   > Robots are really going to kick people's ass.  They're not union. Amazon   
   > already has Automated Material Handling Facilities that have just two   
   > employees, a man and a dog.  The dog's job is to keep the man from   
   > touching anything.  The man's job is to feed the dog.  But they don't   
   > have robots smart enough to fix machines when they pop, and they always   
   > do.  That was my strategy from the gitgo and it has served me well, with   
   > just eight years left to go in my career.  Going forward there will be a   
   > growing class of unemployed and unemployable people competing for a   
   > limited number of dog-feeding positions.  I won't whine about them at   
   > all, because I know the go-getters will learn a technical trade.   
      
   So that leaves us with two courses of action: "reward people for not   
   working", or set up death camps.  What's your preference?   
      
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